This may be a temporary problem, but it has been confirmed by several people including ourselves: as of this moment, you can't set your day of birth to the 31st of any month in Facebook. »6/27/12 8:22pm 6/27/12 8:22pm

There's a bug in Apple's iOS 5 that would allow anyone to look into your photos without using a password—users would only have to click on the camera button on your iPhone to access all the images. »1/04/12 1:14pm 1/04/12 1:14pm

It seems that Apple has ported iOS's background applications system over to the desktop in a feature called Automatic Termination. In concept, it frees memory. In practice, it closes things when you don't want it to. »8/10/11 11:10am 8/10/11 11:10am

If you didn't grow up inside of a zombie ladybug, you really missed out. That's how the larvae of a species of parasitic wasp spend their formative days, using a half-alive, twitching ladybug husk as an incubator and a shield from predators. »6/24/11 9:40pm 6/24/11 9:40pm

Heads up, iPhone users! Last week Australians found a bug in Apple's iOS the hard way. Or maybe the soft way: They overslept as their iPhone alarms failed to go off because of a glitch triggered by daylight saving time. »10/08/10 11:19am 10/08/10 11:19am

Recently some Swedish girls picked up surveillance gear and bugged their teachers' staff room in hopes of overhearing details about upcoming exams. They'd have gotten away with their grade-boosting plan too, if only it weren't for that pesky Facebook. »8/24/10 9:20pm 8/24/10 9:20pm

BUG 2.0, the second version of Bug Labs' Lego set for hardware hobbyists, is here, and it's two things the first one wasn't: blazing fast—and powerful as a Droid, to be specific—and ready for Android. »2/15/10 8:21am 2/15/10 8:21am

A few weeks ago, Intel pulled a firmware update the day after it came out because many users running 64-bit Windows 7 found that it bricked their SSDs. Whoops. The good news though is that Intel has acknowledged and replicated the bug and is working on a fix. The bad news? There's no timeline for when the fix will… »11/06/09 7:00pm 11/06/09 7:00pm